If you could bring back one lost piece of literature, what would it be?
>>24923397Isle of the Cross, Herman Melville
The second part of TBK that ended up never being written. The one where Alyosha turns into a worst even more devil tainted man than all his brothers and his father combined
The dozens of Aristotle treatises, replies, and books that have never been found.
The lost books of the bible
>>24923397The Big Book of Epicureanism
the missing books of Livy's history of Rome
>>24923537>Aristotle's Poetics 2: Electric Boogaloo - Comedywould have changed literature like nobody can imagine
Cypria
>>24923397Cassiodorus' Gothic History
Sulla's memoirs he wrote after giving up the dictatorship
>>24923397The catalog from the Library of Alexandria, just to tantalize historians with what might have been.
>>24923397Emily Bronte had her second novel posthumously destroyed by her bitch sister
>>24923397The entire Greek epic cycle.>>24923553Close second.
>>24923397I want to bring back the AI Trump, AI Biden, AI Obama debates. Those were hilarious.
>>24923966>Library of AlexandriaThat's a meme. It wasn't lost all at once and there was time for items to be translated and move around. That library in Iraq the Mongols destroyed was probably worse.
Silas Haslam - ‘A General History of Labyrinths’
Hemingway's unpublished work, which was lost by his wife Hadley.
>>24923970Bits and pieces still occasionally get found, so maybe something will turn up.
>>24923397The library of Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Formidable, of course, because it contains not only books, scrolls, Runic wooden plates in Slavic languages, but also Latin, Greek and German scrolls and books.
>>24923544You mean like the Nag Hammadi scriptures?
>>24924795I bet it's in the Vatican
>>24923397Selecus writing that allegedly proved heliocentrism while Aristarchus only theorized it.>>24924010Also this.
>>24923449I wonder if we would have gotten any chapters about Demitri living as a fugitive in America?
Someone else here has or will probably say Heraclitus so I would bring back the Tyrrhenika
>>24924795qrd?
>>24923397The complete Satyricon.
>>24923397Dead Souls part II
>>24923397I believe everything that deserved to survive has, of course we cannot check this out completely but my only evidence would be the consistent quality of everything old that has survived, so these things don't seemingly get selected at random, but have a logic to them.
>>24924828I'll go with Parmenides then, it's downright impossible to understand his position with what survives, lest we be dismissive, as people tend to be nowadays.
>>24924831Ivan the Terrible supposedly had a library which was originally brought over as Sophia Paleologue's (his grandmother, a Byzantine princess) dowry and then expanded by the tsars. It is thought to have been lost during the Time of Troubles, probably in a fire (Moscow had a lot of fires in that era) or stolen, or possibly hidden by the Romanovs.
>>24923397The Chaldean Oracles.
>>24924868anything esoteric, neat or stuff that is a mystery to us nowadays?
That great american novel i was going to write
I guess the Homer shit from the library at Alexandria? idgaf i'm sure some akshooallychud will be along in a second to say it's fake and gay or something
>>24924025Is this explained in researched detail anywhere?
>>24924025My schizo theory is that all of these intellectual travesties are organized. Think about it, the destruction of the Middle Academy during the Mithradatic Wars, the closing down of the Neoplatonic Academy and the persecution of the Neoplatonists, the destruction of the Baghdad House of Wisdom (founded by a resident of Haran, which was the city where the Neoplatonists fled to after the Athenian Academy was shut down by Justinian), the closing down of the Florentine Academy, et cetera. There seems to be a concerted effort to shut down this esoteric philosophical strain.
>>24923397the rest of Heraclitus' written corpus
>>24923397The Telegony, just to make all these "Odysseus was the ultimate wife guy" fags seethe
Claudius' TyrrhenikaAfter reading that Nero had many copies of it destroyed I really wish he would have been publicly flogged as the senators wanted
>>24925595this is true in a less schizo and more general sense. A key function of political/social organisation is keeping truths hidden and keeping hordes of people stupid with false but convincing nonsense. Couple this with how It takes a long time to gather knowledge and be genuinely wise, and a very short amount of time to kill that guy/burn his books, and it should be a no-brainer that political entities destroy places of learning all the time
>>24923397The complete works of Antisthenes.
>>24923574this.
